Just found out that there is no “save and compact” from file menu in Flash CS5 when I try to compact it to optimize file size like Flash CS4…

According to this post from Lee Brimelow, Flash CS5 is now in XFL file format (an XML-based, open folder of files) in either zipped (fla) or folder. No matter how you save it, it will always be in XFL format so it is easier to update assets and version control.

I guess when you gain something, you lose something lol~

Adobe has just released CS5 trials on the website today, more info at Adobe – Downloads.

If you are using RichEditableText component in Flex 4 for text layout and want to call actionscript methods within the texts, the old Flex 3 event handler “TextEvent.LINK” won’t work as it is using Text Layout Framework(TLF) now…

There are 2 ways of handling AS methods within RichEditableText component:

1. Use same old Flex 3 “event:myLinkEvent” in HTML “a” tag and add an event listener to RichEditableText.textFlow instead, it will return “myLinkEvent” as event type from example.

2. Add an event handler function to new “click” attribute in HTML “a” tag, it will always return “click” as event type.

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PushButton game engine which arrived to the open source world at March 2009, has earned much community supports since then. It also has Box2D physics engine built-in but unfortunately its example was done using XML templates which some people may not like… so here is a basic Box2D setup in the code (You will need PBE 1.0):

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package {
 
	import com.pblabs.engine.PBE;
 
	[SWF(width="800", height="600", frameRate="30")]
	public class Game extends Sprite {
 
		public function Game() {
			PBE.startup(this);
 
			createScene();
			createBox2DManager();
			createBall();
			createBrick();
		}
 
		private function createScene():void {}
		private function createBox2DManager():void {}
		private function createBall():void {}
		private function createBrick():void {}
 
}

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Adobe has finally released Flash Builder 4 today.

More info at Adobe.

Recently there have been trends with many latest AS3 frameworks, particularly MVC design patterns, built upon Dependency Injection concept.

From Wikipedia:
“Dependency injection (DI) in object-oriented computer programming is a technique for supplying an external dependency (i.e. a reference) to a software component – that is, indicating to a part of a program which other parts it can use. It is a specific form of inversion of control where the concern being inverted is the process of obtaining the needed dependency.”

Apart from nearly outdated Cairngorm and famous PureMVC, frameworks like Mate, Swiz, Parsley and Robotlegs are all using DI to manage dependency.

Some of those frameworks are using Flex meta-data tag injection which some people might argue it is not standard ways but it is a trend…, and I particularly like Robotlegs as it is lightweight framework/toolkit, only contains few classes.

I have been using manual constructor DI with my own MVC framework for some times and might move to meta-data tag injection too:)

Some related posts:
http://tomkordys.net/blog/2009/11/09/dependency-injection-frameworks-and-other-latest-as3-trends-robotlegs-dawn-parsley/
http://www.insideria.com/2009/09/as3-dependency-injection-demys.html
http://www.richardlord.net/blog/frameworks-presentation-slides